Alaska procedural guides

Plain-English guides to the Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure, each one tied to the rules it relies on. Every rule named in a guide has its own page with the official text.

• Responding to an Alaska complaint: 20 days, seven days' warning before default, and the loser pays feesAlaska gives 20 days to answer, requires the party seeking default to serve the application on the defaulting party and wait seven days — and Rule 82 awards attorney's fees to the prevailing party as a matter of course.
• Alaska discovery: disclose the factual basis of your case, 30 interrogatories, and three experts per issueAlaska requires initial disclosures broader than the federal ones — including the factual basis of every claim and defense — caps interrogatories at 30, and limits each side to three independent experts per issue.
• Alaska summary judgment: 15 days to oppose, a statement of genuine issues, and a judgment somebody has to draftAlaska Rule 56 runs on the Rule 77 motion calendar — 15 days to oppose, five to reply — requires a memorandum with the motion and a "statement of genuine issues" in opposition, and does not produce a final judgment on its own.
• Amending an Alaska pleading: retype the whole thing, or it is not amendedAlaska Rule 15(e) says no pleading is deemed amended until it has been retyped complete in itself with all exhibits attached — a formatting rule with the force of a validity rule.
• Setting aside an Alaska judgment: one year from notice, not from entry — and bring a proposed judgmentAlaska Rule 60(b) gives six grounds for relief from a judgment, runs its one-year limit from the date of notice under Rule 58.1(c) rather than from entry, and requires a proposed amended judgment with the motion.
• Alaska TROs and injunctions: 10 days, a bond in almost every case, and a surety who has already consented to jurisdictionAlaska Rule 65 caps a TRO without notice at 10 days — shorter than the federal 14 — requires security except from the state, and makes a surety's liability enforceable on motion.
• Alaska costs and attorney's fees: a schedule for the winner, 10 days to claim, and an offer of judgment that can flip the caseAlaska Rule 82 awards the prevailing party attorney's fees by schedule in every civil case, Rule 79 lists the only recoverable costs, and both are waived if not claimed within 10 days.
• The Alaska motion to dismiss: twenty days to answer, ten after a denialAlaska Rule 12(b) carries the familiar seven defenses, gives 20 days to answer, and only 10 days after a motion is denied.
• The Alaska motion to compel: no case-ending sanction without a finding of willfulnessAlaska Rule 37(b)(3) makes the court weigh five factors before imposing a discovery sanction, and forbids any order that establishes or dismisses a claim unless it finds the party acted willfully.
• Enforcing an Alaska money judgment: the Permanent Fund Dividend, and the 30-day rule that hands the money backAlaska Rule 69 allows a second writ solely to seize a Permanent Fund Dividend, and releases seized money back to the debtor if the creditor does not file proof of service within 30 days.

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